21 Metaphors for searches

Heart-searching, indeed, is such a message; for it will come home, not merely to that very rare character, the absolutely wicked man, the ideal sinner, at whom the preacher too often aims ideal arrows, which vanish in the air: not to him merely will it come home, but to ourselves, to us average human beings, inconsistent, half-formed, struggling lamely and confusedly between good and evil.

" "Oh, any search is pleasure," said the bus-conductor.

If our search has been unsuccessful hitherto, perhaps" "May the good God help you, M. Rudolph.

Their search was well-nigh fruitless.

The neighborhood was dangerous, for the search was hot thereabout, and I determined to double back again to White Ladies, that I might hear what had become of Wilmot.

It is extremely unpleasant to be handled, and on such a charge as that against myself a search was an absurdity.

" Such a search for precedents was no novelty, and may be thought to have been especially proper in such a case as this, since history recorded the appointment of several regencies, one under circumstances strikingly resembling those now existing, when, in 1454, Henry VI. had fallen into a state of imbecility, and the Parliament appointed the Duke of York Protector of the kingdom.

As the search for the runaways remained fruitless Lepailleur, boiling over with rancor, went up to the farm, and from the middle of the roadfor he did not venture insidepoured forth a flood of ignoble insults.

The search for it is the object of Freemasonry.

"The search after food, as we agreed on a former occasion, is the principal cause why animals change their places.

Only after a long search were a few fragments found with traces of red-lead ore.

But this search and this finding, and the motive of it, were the soul and the crown of Leslie's pleasure for the day.

Their search had been a long and tiresome one and had yielded to them no results.

After a few weeks of experience, however, the fascinating search for nerve and muscle, tendon, vein, and artery becomes the dominating state of consciousness, and the scientific spirit excludes all resentment at the disagreeable.

And let strict search be madefor I have heard there are many hidden depositories of treasureespecially within the prisoner's secret cabinet.

The search for primroses was not a silent searchEdith is the first speaker.

The search after the Word is an epitome of the intellectual and religious progress of the order, from the period when, by the dispersion at Babel, the multitudes were enshrouded in the profundity of a moral darkness where truth was apparently forever extinguished.

" "And you will try to discover whether her husband is really true, or whether the search that he has made for her has been a blind to hide his own guilt?"

Our search is for peace, the Great Peace, "the Peace of God which passeth all understanding," and we shall achieve this for ourselves and for the world only through ourselves as individuals, and so for the society of which we are a part, and in so far as we bring ourselves into contact with the Spirit of God.

The search for a vocabulary is the search for a clearer articulation of ideas.

And yet the search for human origins, or the earliest historic and scientific evidences of man on the earth, is but a groping in the dark.

21 Metaphors for  searches